Bosco Ntaganda in no longer a threat to Congolese citizens
Posted On March 25, 2013
I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice,
I have grasped you by the hand;
I formed you, and set you
as a covenant of the people,
a light for the nations,
To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness. (Isaiah 42:7)
The Xaverian Missionaries are working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the early 1960’s. The concern and solidarity of our missionaries and of the local Church there in the terrible years of war, whose vestiges of violence and instability continue to the present day. Hope dawned recently when The Democratic Republic of Congo’s war lord, General Bosco Ntaganda, surrendered himself to the US Embassy in Rwanda. He had asked to be transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda’s first appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 26, 2013, will be a major achievement on the path to ending human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Human Rights Watch said today. Ntaganda was flown to The Hague on March 22 after he unexpectedly and for unknown reasons surrendered to the United States embassy in Kigali, Rwanda on March 18 and requested transfer to the ICC.
Ntaganda’s appearance before the ICC comes almost seven years after the court first issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes in the Ituri district of northeastern Congo. For years Ntaganda led rebel and government forces involved in killings, rape, torture, use of child soldiers, and pillage. MORE>>>
Please pray for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the victims Bosco Ntaganda. Thankful for justice we pray for real peace and healing.
